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Zhao Heng, a scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, traveled across time with mysterious ancient artifacts when the country was destroyed. He did not go back to the past, but was thrown five hundred years later - the vast Pacific Ocean in the seventeenth century. Facing the wild islands and primitive tribes, he used the top technology and governance wisdom of the Song Dynasty (steel filling, gunpowder, and the prototype of the imperial examination) to enlighten his mind, integrate various tribes, and create a civilized country with a strong Song style on an overseas island - "Cangming". However, the real test comes when Cangming's sail shadow first appears in the ocean. The gunboats of Western colonists have spread all over the world. Zhao Heng was shocked to find that what he was fighting against was not the barbarians, but a modern civilization that was an entire era ahead of its time. The steel-filled sword he relied on had to face the matchlock formation; the fortune ship he carefully built had to deal with the gunfire of Galen's battleship; his Confucian ideal of "cultivating oneself and governing the country" encountered the cold logic of colonial plunder and capital expansion. As the ghost of the previous dynasty and the founder of the new country, Zhao Heng is caught in the ultimate dilemma: before the gap of five hundred years of generation and civilization, can this cluster of cultural sparks from the East he protects survive the crushing of the times? This is a lonely and tragic epic showdown related to the survival of civilization.

During the Wuhu Rebellion in China, the knight Yun Zhan's family was massacred. He became brothers with the monk Shi Chen and the Jie tribe warrior Shi Li, and became involved in the troubled times. They get acquainted with the saint Su Wanhe of the White Sect and the mysterious woman Murong Qingshuang, pursue the truth of the murder, and discover the shocking secrets involving the national jade seal and overseas fairy mountains. Murong Qingshuang's true identity was exposed and she gave Yun Zhan a fatal blow when seizing the jade seal. Yun Zhan had an epiphany on the verge of death and put aside his personal hatred. Later, he joined forces with the beggar army Ran Min to fight against Hu, and wrote "Records of Common People in the Sea of ​​Blood" to unite people's hearts. Everyone built Anmin City to fulfill their ideals, and Murong Qingshuang died to save Yun Zhan. In the end, Shi Li died in battle by the Yellow River, and Yun Zhan's defense ran out after ten years. This group of children in troubled times have proved with their lives that even if they cannot turn things around, the struggle itself is the most heroic glory of human nature.

In Qingshui Keng in the 1980s, a girl's life and injustice were buried. Twenty years later, when Chen Zhiming returned to his hometown, what awaited him was not his dying father, but a wedding carefully prepared for him. The paper wedding dress moves automatically without wind, and the ghosts of the first seven nights return. When the village's taboos were violated one by one, Zhiming discovered that the sins of his father's generation were far from the whole truth. In the blurred boundary between good and evil, in the silent confrontation between the individual and the collective, is he the curse-breaker who comes to end reincarnation, or is he... The final sacrifice in this sacrifice?

On the summer night of 1984, Lin Xingmei, a female cotton mill worker in Nandu City, was murdered. A strange cicada-shaped symbol was carved on the collarbone of her body. Detective Song Cheng was involved in the case for the first time, and he buried his knot in the physical evidence. In the following more than ten years, similar cases occurred occasionally and all remained unsolved. On a rainy night in 1998, the seventh female corpse with cicada marks appeared at a construction site. The investigation pointed to the lonely security guard Wang Zhiguo, but the clues were eventually interrupted mysteriously. It was not until 2024 that Song Cheng's apprentice, young detective Jiang Yichen, used new DNA technology to restart the investigation and found that all the evidence pointed to Zhao Yongming, a "decent man" who was knowledgeable and perfectly disguised. The interrogation becomes a battlefield for psychological games. As Zhao Yongming's twisted "philosophy of love" and the confessions hidden in his diary gradually emerged, a darker truth was revealed: it all stems from his first love, Su Xiaowen, who disappeared in 1983. Behind the cicada-shaped symbol, there is another terrifying inheritance about the "eye collector". Two generations of criminal police spent forty years to finally settle this century-old unsolved case that spanned reform and opening up, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, and changes in criminal investigation technology. When the chirping of cicadas echoed through Nandu again, they used their lives to explain: The right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life.